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old Adam

noun

Definition of old Adam

: unregenerate human nature grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried — Book of Common Prayer the old Adam in me … rises and asserts himself— R. W. Jackson

— called also old man

History and Etymology for old Adam

after the Biblical Adam, the first man and first sinner

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